Rabbi Dr. Eugene Korn lives in Jerusalem, Israel, and has worked extensively in the field of Jewish-Catholic reconciliation. His recent books are To Be a Holy People: Jewish Tradition and Ethical Values and Israel and the Nations: The Bible, the Rabbis, and Jewish-Gentile Relations.
The church statements tend toward pacifism, and if we are pacifistic in the face of Hamas’s unrelenting evil, then we will abandon God’s creation to the forces of death and destruction.
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The German traditionalist pope, buried Thursday, is often remembered as icy and aloof, but those who knew him say Ratzinger was a warm man who moved Catholic-Jewish ties forward